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Friday, December 19, 2025
TopicUPSC coaching

Topic: UPSC coaching

Protesters disappointed by popular teachers’ silence on UPSC aspirants’ death — ‘nowhere to be seen’

Educators & heads of offline coaching centres have kept quiet on the issue so far, while faculty members of some online platforms have been visiting protest site in Old Rajinder Nagar.

Rau’s IAS coaching centre student from Tamil Nadu says he’s not missing. ‘Stop using picture in media’

Kingsley Kannan says he’s safe and living with his friend in Delhi’s Sultanpur. Friends were unable to trace him on fateful day & reached out to media for his whereabouts, he adds.

MCD sacks 1 engineer, suspends another over Delhi IAS coaching centre flooding, initiates probe

Municipal Corporation of Delhi has sealed 13 coaching centres & has demanded explanation from Karol Bagh executive engineer on why basement was being run as library without permission.

UPSC aspirants’ deaths: 13 coaching centres sealed amid protests, PIL filed, matter reaches Parliament

MCD announces Rs 10 lakh compensation for next of kin & action against unauthorised constructions. 3 students died after library located illegally in basement of Rau's IAS centre flooded.

‘Cooperating fully with agencies,’ says Rau’s IAS Study Circle in 1st statement on flooding deaths

Three UPSC aspirants drowned in flooded basement of Rau’s IAS Study Circle centre in Old Rajinder Nagar Saturday evening. Owner and coordinator of the centre have been arrested.

Exam stress, rent hikes — aspirant’s suicide note about life in Delhi’s UPSC hub back in focus

On Sunday, Anjali’s uncle joined protesters demanding accountability for deaths of three aspirants who drowned in flooded basement of a coaching centre in Old Rajinder Nagar.

UPSC aspirants want Rs 1 cr compensation for flooding victims, ban on commercial use of basements

Hundreds of aspiring civil servants took to streets of Old Rajinder Nagar in Delhi to protest deaths of three aspirants who died due to drowning in basement of coaching centre.

Waterlogging ‘caused biometric system to turn off’, trapping students in Delhi coaching centre basement

Road was clogged with rainwater due to poor drainage, and this poured into basement. The basement was used as library despite having fire service clearance only for use as storage.

‘Paid fee with loan, wanted her to stand on own feet’ — father of UPSC aspirant who died in flooding

Shreya Yadav’s father, a dairy farmer by profession in UP’s Ambedkar Nagar district, said she joined Rau’s IAS Study Circle in Old Rajinder Nagar for UPSC prep in April this year.

Basement of UPSC coaching centre where 3 aspirants drowned was flooded ‘within 10 minutes’

Poor drainage system and carelessness killed those students, says one aspirant. Rau’s IAS Study Circle in Old Rajinder Nagar is yet to issue official statement on deaths.

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India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.